Most Popular Sports Events (50)

NFL annual championship; top US ratings, with globally watched halftime show and commercials.

Cricket's highest event; India's 2011 home victory attracted hundreds of millions of viewers.

Europe's top national team stage; 2024 final drew over 300 million global viewers.

Founded in 1903, spanning three weeks across France, one of the world's largest annual sporting events.

Top racing event drawing over 1.5 billion annual viewers, with 24 races across five continents.

Highest hall of winter sports, first held in 1924, with the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics approaching.

South America's highest national team honor; founded in 1916, the oldest continental event.

Expanded to 32 teams from 2025, the global pinnacle showdown of continental club champions.

World's most commercially valuable cricket league, with broadcast rights totaling over 6 billion dollars.

Founded in 1877, the oldest tennis Grand Slam, known for its grass and white traditions.

World's highest level basketball series, covering over 200 countries and regions.

Quadrennial rugby's highest event; 2019 Japan hosted it, drawing over 800 million viewers.

First of golf's four majors; Augusta's green jacket is the player's highest honor.

England-Australia cricket rivalry, a century-old showdown starting in 1882.

Founded in 1875, America's most famous horse race, known as the Race of Roses.

Founded in 1897, the world's oldest annual city marathon, held on Patriots' Day.

US vs Europe biennial golf team competition, featuring an intense atmosphere.

Founded in 1851, the highest honor of sailing, also a cutting-edge technology competition.

World's highest level athletics event, biennially gathering the world's fastest 100m sprinters.

First tennis Grand Slam of the year, played on hard courts in Melbourne summer.

The only clay Grand Slam, held at Roland Garros in Paris.

Hard court Grand Slam, annually taking center stage in New York's Flushing every summer.

Highest event for swimming, diving, and open water, held biennially.

F1's most iconic street race, first held in 1929, winding through Monte Carlo.

Founded in 1911, the world's largest single-day sporting event, a racing holy land.

NASCAR season opener, the highest-rated racing event in the US.

US college basketball knockout tournament, an annual feast of mass bracket predictions.

US college football national championship battle, with final ratings comparable to the Super Bowl.

MLB annual championship series, held since 1903.

North America's highest ice hockey honor, with the trophy passed down since 1893.

South America's highest club football honor; founded in 1960, with a frenzied final atmosphere.

Europe's second-tier club event, where the champion advances directly to the Champions League group stage.

Africa's highest football event, founded in 1957, watched by all of Africa.

Asia's largest comprehensive sports event, founded in 1951.

England, France, Italy, Ireland, Wales, and Scotland six-country century-old rivalry, a Northern Hemisphere rugby event.

Highest hall of two-wheeled racing, founded in 1949, featuring ultimate speed showdowns.

World's top rally event across ice, gravel, and asphalt surfaces.

Founded in 1995, the premier competition for extreme sports such as skateboarding and BMX.

Men's tennis World Cup, a national team competition founded in 1900.

Top-level gymnastics competition, established in 1903.

Table tennis' highest honor, founded in 1926, long dominated by China.

Premier judo competition, established in 1956.

Global sports event for people with intellectual disabilities, launched in 1968.

Europe's elite club basketball showdown, single‑game decider with explosive atmosphere.

Horse racing spectacle founded in 1877 that halts all of Australia.

Multi‑sport games featuring over 70 Commonwealth nations and territories.

Biennial golf team competition pitting the United States against an International team.